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try on

verb tries on · trying on · tried on

  1. transitive To test the look or fit of (a garment) by wearing it. c. 1601, Gervase Markham, The Dumb Knight, London: John Bache, 1608, Act III, Fore God it is a delicate fine suite, rich stuffe, rare worke, and of the newest fashion; nay if the Senats businesse were neuer so hasty, I will stay to try it on, come, help good wenches helpe, so there, there there.
  2. slang, transitive To attempt; to undertake. “He says, and gives it out publicly, “I want to see the man who’ll rob me.” Lord bless you, I have heard him, a hundred times, if I have heard him once, say to regular cracksmen in our front office, “You know where I live; now, no bolt is ever drawn there; why don’t you do a stroke of business with

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verb to test the look of

Españolprobar
日本語試着する shichaku suru
中文試穿 /试穿 shìchuān
Portuguêsprovar
Françaisessayer
Deutschanprobieren
Italianoprovare, misurare
Ελληνικάδοκιμάζω dokimázo
Русскийпримеря́ть primerjátʹ, приме́рить priméritʹ

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@misc{try_on_2026,
  title = {try on},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/try%20on},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}